Archeological investigations on Manhattan island, New York city
An 1920 archaeological report by Alanson Skinner of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, published in New York, recording excavations of Native American sites on Manhattan island. The plates show pottery sherds with cord-marked and incised surfaces, lettered groups of stone tools and worked stone axes photographed against plain and dark grounds, and a designer might take from them the clear, catalogue-style arrangement of objects on neutral backgrounds with small lettered labels.
